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A start: listing both opinions with quotes. If you want to expand anything, I'd love it.
A "Sedition Act" is a law that criminalizes activity seen by Congress as subversive ([[sedition]]).
A "Sedition Act" is a law that criminalizes activity seen by the government as [[sedition]]. While [[Thomas Jefferson]] called such laws "expressly and positively forbidden" by the [[First Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], the [[Supreme Court]] upheld the [[Sedition Act of 1918]] in the case [[Abrams v. United States]], stating that the government could restrict speech which caused a "clear and present danger."
In the [[United States]], there have been two Sedition Acts.
In the [[United States]], there have been two Sedition Acts, neither of which is currently in force.
*[[Sedition Act of 1798]]
*[[Sedition Act of 1798]], which automatically expired in 1801.
*[[Sedition Act of 1918]]
*[[Sedition Act of 1918]], which was repealed in 1921.
Numerous other countries, including [http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=1964-REVED-290&doctitle=SEDITION%20ACT%0A&date=latest&method=whole Singapore] and [http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/14253 Malaysia], have sedition acts currently in force.